suspect
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No suspect has been arrested in either case, police said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
He will visibly grow older – pretty fast, I suspect — and then he’ll die.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
I have seen similar essays throughout my eight decades of life, and the subject frustrates me — though perhaps not for the reason you might suspect.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026
Police suspect the network was responsible for smuggling up to 40,000 phones during 2024 and 2025, exporting them to China.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
But I know I should at least try, because otherwise Alex will suspect I wasn’t telling the truth about why I broke into the office.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
The suspects were arrested at the scene and released after they made written promises to appear, the agency announced Friday in a Facebook post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
The U.S. and British intelligence services work closely together, and Mr. Trump’s comments suggest the motives of the suspects may go beyond a British domestic act of terror.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
President Trump said the suspects had been under investigation "for a long time".
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
The police say they have launched a manhunt for the suspects.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Whatever the real reason, at least Asher doesn’t sound like he suspects Hideo’s plans, and I intend to keep it that way.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
Investigators are examining whether the suspected plot is linked to Iran, according to multiple reports.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
Following that meeting, Vogot then told Nevada officials that DHS had in fact manually reviewed some of the 16,000 or so suspected noncitizens and “confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens.”
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026
More recently, Grozev had gotten access to the communications of Denis Alimov, a suspected Russian spy, after he was arrested in Colombia in February 2026.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Several sites in the north of England, some of which are understood to have received waste from Scotland, have been shut down by the Environment Agency following investigations into suspected illegal waste activity.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Doc suspected it was because she’d turned their legend into a research project.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
He’d been stunned by his star’s nearly centurylong sentence and came away from a review of the case suspecting that Walters may have been wrongfully convicted.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Still, it’s worth noting that Sink’s role has been the subject of much speculation, with fans suspecting she would play Marvel-verse X-Men telekinetic and telepath Jean Grey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
People outside Wall Street will probably say they don’t know, while those who work in finance, suspecting a trap, may hedge their bets.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Movies rarely venture so far into the hearts of ordinary people trying to do their best but suspecting they have made a great many irreparable mistakes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Kote nodded, almost as if he had been suspecting the news.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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